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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307455289
ISBN-139780307455284
eBay Product ID (ePID)72357933
Product Key Features
Book TitlePrivate Patient
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Medical, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Mystery & Detective / Traditional
Publication Year2009
GenreFiction
AuthorP.D. James
Book SeriesAdam Dalgliesh Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
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TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown." -- Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful." -- The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears." -- The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." -- Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." -- Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." -- Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown."-Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful."-The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears."-The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." -Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." -Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." -Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch , "Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown." -- Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful." -- The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears." -- The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." -- Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." -- Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." -- Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch , "Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown." -- Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful." -- The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears." -- The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." -- Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." -- Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." -- Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Brilliant. . . . A jewel in [James's] crown." - Pittsburg-Post Gazette "No one is better than James at maintaining this tension between the cozy and the frightful." - The Washington Post "[James is] a master. . . . Nothing is as it first appears." - The Boston Globe "[I]intricately plotted and suspenseful.... James' clear-eyed, often sardonic prose describes rooms and people exactly as she sees them." - Providence Journal "Elegant . . . compelling. . . . Continues the James tradition. . . . She comfortably tackles timeless concerns." - Chicago Tribune "The ghost of literature past haunts P.D. James' newest novel. . . . The novel's pointed descriptions, its gothic settings, and its theme exploring the insidious legacies of family and class violence suggest Charles Dickens may have rested a hand on James' shoulder while she wrote this terrific literary mystery." - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "James is a wonderful writer." - Chicago Sun-Times "James is in excellent form. . . . [She] offers her readers intelligence, wisdom, dry humor, knowledge both deep and wide-ranging, humanity, compassion, understanding and a wonderful way with words. . . . James is one of Britain's greatest living writers." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Series Volume Number14
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisNational Bestseller. Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past. But Before Rhoda's murder is solved, a second horrific death adds to the complexities of one of Dalgliesh's most perplexing and fascinating cases., NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past. But Before Rhoda's murder is solved, a second horrific death adds to the complexities of one of Dalgliesh's most perplexing and fascinating cases., NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy and within hours of the operation Rhoda is murdered. Commander Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a case complicated by old crimes and the dark secrets of the past. But Before Rhoda's murder is solved, a second horrific death adds to the complexities of one of Dalgliesh's most perplexing and fascinating cases.
